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Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era by Mathnerd314 on Sunday October 13, 2019 @07:01PM (#21243846)
Everything young people do now outside of schooling and dedicated hobbies seems to be mobile-based, so Tiktok is probably the equivalent to Newgrounds these days.

This "novices" thing seems to me to be overblown though; Alan Kay has been beating the "programming for novices" drum for decades with Smalltalk and basically nothing happened. I would rather have professional-quality tools with decent Youtube tutorials, like Blender, Unity, Python, etc. have been developing.

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Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era by chii on Monday October 14, 2019 @01:21AM (#21245454)
> Tiktok is probably the equivalent to Newgrounds these days.

that's like comparing crack-cocaine den to LARP'ing groups. No way newgrounds is anything comparable to the lows that is tiktok (or vine).

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Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era by eXpl0it3r on Monday October 14, 2019 @03:27AM (#21245948)
The comparison isn't about the quality, creativeness or usefulness, but about on what kids spend their free time and attention.
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